cobra libre : Deepwater Horizon: Redundancy prevents catastrophes - "So as a society, I'd bet, we're going to decide that we don't actually care as much about poisoning our oceans and our coastlines and befouling our planet with black crud as we do about the money it would cost to make it less likely."#

Jeremy Zawodny : Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? - Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal?: I think there are some interesting tips in here

philgyford : Into The Abyss: Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness - Fun look at how so many Hollywood films use very similar computer-adjusted colour palettes these days. (via @matlock)

deusx : Persistent Trees in git, Clojure and CouchDB « EclipseSource Blog - "This is a tale of three images. I found these images while investigating the internals of several different applications. There are some really neat software projects emerging at the moment, and as a developer I always find it interesting to take a

deusx : PHP and Memcached: The state of things - "Memcached is the de facto standard for caching in dynamic web sites. PHP is the one of the most widely used languages on the web. So, naturally there is lots of interest in using the two together. There are two choices for using memcached with PHP:

cobra libre : Andrew Bacevich: Long Wars are Antithetical to Democracy - "The responsibility facing the American people is clear. They need to reclaim ownership of their army. They need to give their soldiers respite, by insisting that Washington abandon its de facto policy of perpetual war." [via] #